“On the Landscape” is a new 1/1 animation and video art short by Ryan Seslow. The video has been created in a retro style influenced by various media formats of the 1990s and early 2000s. “On the Landscape” is a story. It is a story that we all know. It flows its visual narrative through a sequence of dream like memories through tender sentiments of longing and the fading transitions of time’s passing. The elements and characters in the video were first hand drawn, digitized and manipulated through various software applications to achieve the grainy saturated visual aesthetic. The animation is intended to loop over and over when it is displayed. The video will loop automatically here, but outside of this presentation the user (or the collector of the NFT) will have to set their video player to “loop”. This asks the user to interact with the narrative asking the question, “do you want to continue the loop in your life”? The loop itself is a metaphor and a mirror into our past. The loop repeats the many behavioral patterns that we experience both consciously and unconsciously with in our lives, the ones that seem to play over and over on repeat inside of us. Particularly the way that we reflect on our past relationships, the feelings of longing and bouts of the nostalgic sentiments.
You can read the full story and see the process on how the work was created here - https://www.ryanseslow.com/new-animation-on-the-landscape/
